Ric Sherlock wrote:
>
> Explicitly defined verbs and verbs that include trains have default rank of
> _ _ _ , but that can be altered as part of the verb definition.
Rick and everybody else still doing this: please stop this misleading
wording!
A verb's rank CANNOT be "altered". Its rank is a fixed,
"intrinsic" property.
As the original poster correctly pointed out (and had to find out
the hard way), applying a rank conjunction creates a new verb with
the new, requested rank, wrapping around the original verb (with
its unaltered own rank still effective). Any babbling of "changing
ranks" is too much of a simplification, and will give J newbies a
hard time in the long run.
Martin
[Is there something as a "Frequently Given Complaint"? I seem to
be sending this message out every five years or so.]
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